Commander is the dog that they got to replace Major, the previous German Shepherd that was biting people, who was "sent to live with family friends"
Gotta get through Colonel first. Working up the ranks!
For a second I thought your comment said his next dog would be called Zelensky
People have had all sorts of weird pets at the white house. off hand I can think of a racoon and maybe an alligator? And someone had a goat. and I think a few people have grazed livestock.
as prez, i would totally have a couple of goats. different breeds too, so they would be visually distinct enough for the press corps to learn the two names. the lawn is enormous and it would be a great excuse to put massive parts of it under some kind of forage management plan instead of just having it mowed into those finished grid patterns like an opulent douche. give them abrahamic religious names... nothing major, but like a deep cut. like Zebedee and Drusilla. make the evangelicals think i'm signaling to them, keep them occupied in observing the grazing patterns like it's a secret code.
but really just because goats are funny and i would make sure they were nearby during outdoor press conferences so there would be weird bleating in the background of any reporting.
I judge people very harshly based on the behavior of their dogs and I'm glad to see Brandon living up to my expectation.
i love that I'm an animal friend and can't remember the last time a dog didn't like me.
got to hang out with a 3 legged cat today and she barely knows me but THREW herself at me for affection. She has skin problems and I really hope they get better but she's my friend's cat and I can't afford to be like "I'm taking her to the vet for you." I think they're getting better but idk.
I would really like to work with animals but I really just want to play with them and give them love all day and not clean up their poop and stuff. also I would like to get paid more than $5 an hour
If they are dogs that are housebroken and not incontinent, you do get pretty strongly desensitized to the poop such that cleaning up after them is much less of a pain than one might imagine. idk about cats and litter boxes.
If you scoop the cat's litter box a few times a day it's not an issue. idk why people don't do that. Scoop in the morning, scoop when you get home, scoop before you go to bed, never worry about odor or mess.
I’m Hexbear’s local veterinarian and I approve this message.
In case you need another reason to keep your house from smelling like cat shit:
Feline coronavirus (not that one, but a close cousin) is a relatively benign, very common virus that turns into a fatal disease called FIP after a few cycles of re-infection. The best way we know to prevent those cycles of reinfection is to clean feces from the litterbox at minimum every 18-24 hours, because that’s the length of time the virus has to hang out in the environment before it can reinfect your cat.
Fun fact: Remdesivir was first (basically) developed to treat FIP.
Comrade Biden is siccing them on the agents of the depraved capitalist state. Soon he will walk them into Congress and they will hunt down every last member of the legislative branch.
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Biden was getting yelled at to take his meds or something before a speech and the dog tried to defend him
I’m mad at whoever is in charge of these dogs. Biting is a sign that their boundaries are not being respected and that there is something wrong in the way they are being handled/interacted with. I have a strong suspicion that they’re punished for growling, which is the fastest way to train your dog to bite you with zero warning.
After one bite incident they should have been muzzled 24/7. There should never be an opportunity for a second bite. That is a dramatic failure on the part of the humans who should be setting these guys up for success. As a veterinarian I would face legal liability, to the point of license forfeiture, if someone came to me saying their dog had bitten someone and I did not immediately instruct them to muzzle the dog. This makes me so mad.
Obviously they’re all fuckups in the White House but this behavior is insultingly negligent.
If anyone needs resources or is struggling with managing their own dogs behavior this is the holy grail: How to Behave so Your Dog Behaves
You're probably right, which riles me up even more. You have an opportunity to set a good example for THOUSANDS of people who deal with reactive dogs, but you actively choose to play dumb and act like its somehow the secret services' fault that you suck as a reactive dog owner.
This is literally a case of legal liability that they are flagrantly ignoring. Any joe shmoe in the same situation would face court dates and possible mandated behavioral euthanasia if they were this negligent with their aggressive dog. It's a slap in the face to people who take their dogs reactivity seriously and work to address it.
Also, you're the fucking president of the United States. Stop getting penis dogs. You don't need a German Shepherd or Malinois to make you feel like a Big Man, and you clearly suck at owning them. Just get a Lhasa Apso or a Pomeranian that will just bounce around being a happy little marshmallow and stop putting your animals and staff at risk because of your bullshit ego.
Edit: I also know that this is a dumb thing to get super worked up about but it's just a microcosm of the fuckups of the whole administration and I'm taking it personally lol
It doesn't exactly look better that this is the second time in his term that he has raised a dog who's biting all the staff.
I mean not if you're actually looking at the story and remember last time. But this story isn't going to get a ton of airplay, and it can be (less and less convincingly) played off as "the dog's fault" not biden's. If there were video of him biting it would get tons of play though, same as if there were a photo of the dog in a muzzle (which would be harder to keep under wraps)
I'm imagining it's the racist dog from Curb Your Enthusiasm (though I guess that dog ultimately ends up being not racist, just coincidentally aggressive towards a few people of color)
for causing mayhem in the White House, I guess.
